X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,TW_BJ X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-DKIM: Sendmail DKIM Filter v2.8.3 mux1.uit.no pA48ofKw008215 From: =?utf-8?B?RWR2YXJkc2VuIEvDpXJl?= To: "moss AT cs DOT umass DOT edu" CC: "cygwin AT cygwin DOT com" Subject: Re: Problem with execution of binary file Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 08:50:41 +0000 Message-ID: <1320396611.5480.196.camel@kare-desktop> References: <1320322806 DOT 5480 DOT 161 DOT camel AT kare-desktop> <4EB30E21 DOT 3090707 AT cs DOT umass DOT edu> In-Reply-To: <4EB30E21.3090707@cs.umass.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by delorie.com id pA48p527002269 > On 11/3/2011 4:56 PM, Eliot Moss wrote: > Ok, so here's one thing about bash: to get it to > run an *executable* (as opposed to a *script*), > you need to say "bash -c FLEXPART_GFORTRAN". > You might try strace on that. In addition to the > objdump suggestion. > > I have a moment to expand on this a little. The > 80-byte read we saw was bash looking at the > beginning of what it that was supposed to be a > script (not a binary) and seeing if it really > appeared to be a script. I did not look like a > script, so bash gave up. (It checks whether the > first line is all printable characters or white > space.) > > Best -- Eliot Moss > Hmm, wonder why bash would interpret it as a script. Anyway, I will get back to you later with output from strace and objdump. Cheers, kåre